For this exhibition, artist and curator Glenn Barkley has mined Albert Tucker’s library and archive to explore how Tucker’s fascination with art of the past and other cultures informed his painting over the decades.

The exhibition title cites a poem by A.D. Hope that Barkley found bookmarked in the library, a text reflecting on the way a handcrafted object links two people across several centuries. Central to Meditation on Bone is the motif of the mask, another culturally loaded device that can have meaning in both the past and the present. The display includes books, photographs and archival material from Tucker’s personal collection, together with works by a range of artists who use the mask literally and conceptually as a way to obscure meaning, invite nostalgia, and connect histories.

Gillian Hillman has been creating beautiful jewellery from her St.Kilda studio for more than 20 years. She has a loyal following of customers who appreciate the unique designs she creates.

Her work is a pleasure to wear and can often be worn in a variety of ways to create different looks. Clients are surprised at the number of compliments they get when wearing one of her pieces and how it is not uncommon for her distinctive style to be recognized. Gillian’s designs are a reflection of customer needs and her response to their particular style.

They range from simple strong combinations of gold and silver, to romantic pearls from Broome, caught in beautiful textured metals or showcasing unusual coloured gemstones from her collection. You may previously have seen her work at Makers Mark where she showed for more than 20 years.

She enjoys working directly with clients to create jewellery that captures their own personal style, while bringing pleasure to wearer and viewer. She is also happy to remodel jewellery.

Creative Women in Focus is a special event featuring Melbourne shoemaker and accessory master, Emma Greenwood.

Emma has carved herself out a unique space in the world. Her brilliantly off beat handmade kicks reference everything from Victorian needlepoint to hip hop culture and her spectacular shoes have won awards, been exhibited around Australia and have featured in numerous publications both in Australia and overseas.

Using a variety of materials such as leather, postage stamps, electrical wire, and handmade textile trims, Emma’s pieces are highly tactile and precious, referencing a love of colour, humour, symmetry and silhouette.

“My practice focuses on the manipulation of leather into bold sculptural forms. I combine traditional skills of leatherworking, jewellery and textile arts to produce footwear and accessories with a sense of experimentation and contemporary direction”.

Emma will speak as part of the 2018 "Creative Women in Focus" series about her life and creative work.

From take away to wear away, in this two-day jewellery workshop Pennie Jagiello will guide participants to reconsider disposable and single use plastics through challenges of considered redesigning. Using objects that are often used and discarded without consideration, participants will be guided into deconstructing and redesigning form, and reworking found materials into new and wearable objects of delight.

Beginning with a walk along Nungurner jetty foreshore to collect discarded plastic debris, further inspiration will be drawn from the stunning natural surrounds of the studio to be incorporated and transformed along with an assortment of other plastic objects.

Workshop participants will explore mark making techniques often more traditionally employed upon metal or wood along with a variety of cold joining techniques and applying these to the collected selection of household plastics. Throughout history metals have been associated with value and wealth while plastics were designed to replace expensive natural materials. As a master of mimicry plastics eventually became a disposable commodity with unforeseeable environmental impacts.

View the exhibition of works by Pennie Jagiello while making your own creations, immersed in the stunning surrounds of East Gippsland.

Suitable for anyone interested in salvaging their marks in time as wearable heirlooms!

In a world seemingly felt through the digitalisation of relationships, and experienced through the overwhelming access to data, "All of us" is a timely reminder of the importance to connect; with people, with a vast range or perceptions, ideas and knowledge.

The exhibition presents a contemporary framework by which to explore the importance of collaboration and the connections between artists, their practice, and the audiences they reach – providing an exploratory space to reflect on what it means to be a greater we.

In this context, and in acknowledgement of the land that binds all of us, the exhibition celebrates the creative rewards of collective activity as a cultural strategy to encourage new connections, reveal those that might otherwise remain latent, and to address the global on a local level.

Fringe Furniture | Emerging Designer Award

Fringe is an exciting time of year and Craft is always thrilled to support Fringe Furniture with our Emerging Designer Award.

It is fantastic to see how Fringe Furniture has grown and developed over the years to incorporate an ever expanding breadth of local designers and makers. To think that only in 2011 there were no more than 35 participants!

This year among 147 works on exhibition, we awarded two prizes! Congratulations to both Kayla Lim for her work, ‘The Bend’ and Olas Design for their ‘GH Bike Rack’.

Kayla’s ’The Bend’ is made form Western Beech - Hydrowood, glass, aluminium and steel and uses the traditional woodcraft technique of hot pipe bending - which is traditionally associated with making luthiers (ie. violins).

Olas Design are emerging furniture makers trained with a minimalist approach to design.

The ‘GH Bike Rack’ is a simple and elegant solution for bike and helmet storage; it is a beautiful functional object, but also stands alone as a sculptural piece.

Fringe Furniture is on until 30 September in the beautiful Rosina Auditorium at Abbotsford Convent.

Visit Minna Graham's Daylesford studio. Explore, watch demonstrations and view new work. Hosted by The Australian Ceramics Association to highlight diverse practices of Australian artists working today in clay.

Minna's studio overlooks Hepburn Regional Park, just a few minutes from Daylesford. Her sensitivity to Minna's surroundings is embodied in her work, subtle changes to the seasons and environment are perceived and responded to in every aspect of her arts practice. The artist is attentive to the balance of contrasting textures and surfaces. As she is highly affected by my immediate environment, nature is Minna's greatest influence. Employing various methods of surface treatment, tonal contrasts and texture, she illustrate a collision of emotional responses to contrasting seasons. The softness and gentle warmth of spring with a memory of an icy winter. The threat of bush fire, the sweltering scorch and breathless, dry heat of summer. Minna enjoys the simple responses evoked by nature and embody this in my work.

A large range of work will be on display, demonstrations throughout the weekend and a peek at a working studio!

Stonehouse Gallery is pleased to present this spectacular and popular Annual Exhibition.

The Melbourne Teapot Exhibition features both functional and non functional sections in diverse creative disciplines.

Now in its 13th year, the Melbourne Teapot Exhibition gives artists and makers of diverse disciplines the opportunity to explore and interpret the teapot form within their individual field of expertise and materials.

Makers and Artists from all over Victoria and Australia participate in this fabulous exhibition. The many visitors and collectors who visit the exhibition delight in the fun range of quirky, funky, crazy teapots made in a variety of materials and also the well designed practical teapots. All entries are able to be purchased.

The exhibition aims to encourage artists and makers to excel in their creativity and offers awards in cash and vouchers to the value of over $2200.

LOEWE is pleased to announce the launch of the LOEWE Craft Prize 2019, the third edition of the international award.

An experts panel composed of artists, artisans, essayists, curators and designers will consider all submitted works in order to select a shortlist of up to 30 submissions. Their choice will be based on a number of key criteria: originality, clear artistic vision and merit, precise execution, material excellence, innovative value and a distinct authorial mark.These shortlisted works will then form the basis of an exhibition due to go on display in Tokyo from which the Prize’s Jury will select the winning piece.

Submissions for the LOEWE Craft Prize 2019 will be accepted until 31 October 2018.The 2018 edition of the prize received close to 1,900 submissions from a total of 86 countries across the globe; potential candidates for this year’s edition are invited to study the guidelines and submit work click below link

FRIDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER, 6:30PM - 9:30PM, Opening Night including live music, bar, silent auction, opportunity to vote in the People's Choice Award, and your chance to be the first in line to purchase one of the fine art works acquired for the show. Tickets will be available here soon.

SATURDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER, 10AM - 4PM, will be an all day affair including artist demonstrations, sausage sizzle, cake stall, coffee cart - bring the kids and help celebrate with us!

St Kilda Primary School is a forward thinking education facility, with a community and network of art and culture driven parents, teachers and community leaders.

St Kilda Primary School will only be taking a 25% commission from all artworks sold - the rest, is obviously yours!

Please complete application form to be part of the St Kilda Primary School Art Show, 2018. If successful, we will send you an Artist Pack with further information.

The Scott Livesey Gallery will be showing Vipoo Srivilasa's Everyday Shrines from 28 July - 18 August 2018.

Opening Event: Saturday 28 July, 1- 3pm

The exhibition presents Srivilasa's contemporary interpretations of 'Spirit Houses' found outside almost every house in South East Asia and expresses the artist's desire to preserve but also modernise traditional rituals.

Vipoo Srivilasa's exhibition Everyday Shrines was recently shown as part of Craft Victoria's Craft Forward series in collaboration with the Gippsland Art Gallery.

The Abbotsford Convent presents Hearing it for Silence, an installational multidisciplinary solo exhibition of new ceramic lighting and drawings by Australian artist Sarah Tracton.Tracton uses her experience of hearing loss as a catalyst to visually explore the texture of sound via the materiality of luminous porcelain lighting. She canvasses the metaphorical transition from silence towards a sound with an cyber technology - a nexus between art and technology.

Come and enjoy the textures and colours of winters during the ‘Winter Warmers’ exhibition from artists of the Alcove Art Shop. All our creations are hand made and include ceramics, jewellery, paintings, woodwork, cards and textiles. All artworks are for sale. We invite you to celebrate the launch of the exhibition with finger food and drinks on our opening night.

Soft Tissue uses embroidery, collage and text to explore ideas of vulnerability, materiality, memory and personal narrative. Works place everyday objects alongside subversive details and language and are contextualized through their emotive titles. The result is a confronting study of radical softness, power and healing, interwoven with personal experiences of anger, grief and emotional labour.

Soul Craft is a weekend long celebration of craft and connection presented by The Craft Sessions; created to bring the craft community together with lots of space and time to talk all things craft.

The program is two full days of all our favourite textile crafts in one big happy mix, from sewing to embroidery, knitting to natural dyeing, weaving to quilting. There will be ongoing speakers, panels, demonstrations, international and national guests, community projects, exhibitions, and a marketplace.

Scarf Festival returns to the National Wool Museum in Geelong with this must-see textile exhibition and competition being an eclectic showcase of original handcrafted scarves entered by anyone - from school kids to beginner crafters to accomplished artisans from Australia and overseas.

This year's theme is "Living On The Land".

Hosted by the National Wool Museum since 2008, the Scarf Festival attracts hundreds of entries each year culminating in a fantastic exhibition opening launch event.

Artist who live, work or study in Boroondara are invited to apply for the Community Project Wall 2019 exhibition program.

The Community Project Wall is a gallery space at the Town Hall Gallery devoted to talented local artists. The exhibition space is offered free of charge and includes professional curation, presentation, promotion and the opportunity for artwork to be sold on behalf of the artist. Successful applicants benefit from curatorial advice, mentoring, career development and the opportunity to exhibit work to a broad audience

City of Moonee Valley is calling for artists or curators to exhibit in the Atrium during 2019. The space is best suited for artists who work in sculptural and spatial practices. Sit specific works responding to the area are especially encouraged

This is set to happen during Craft Cubed Festival - Sunday 28th July - Saturday 11th August 2018

ENTRIES CLOSE 28 MAY

Since its inception at Buda in 2008, the Contemporary Textiles Exhibition has developed into a biennial event of national importance on the calendar of embroiderers and fabric artists, making Castlemaine a centre for the display of excellence and innovation in contemporary textiles.

Supporting the work of established and emerging textile artists from across Australia and New Zealand, with a prize pool of approximately $3,300. Artists work is jury chosen for entry, and judged by an esteemed panel from the textile industry, including practicing artists.

Ebony Gulliver and Louise Meuwissen share a fascination for the nature of time. Time is sensual and it is lived. It quickens in its inexorability, it coalesces, and it withers away. In their respective practices, times incessant ever-presence and irreversibility are evidenced in the meticulousness of their creative process and in the symbolic use of the arrow, the circle, and the void. These motifs draw upon mythical, philosophical and scientific interpretations of the rhythms observable in nature and the cosmos – energies to which we are all subject and forces to which we are all bound. There is an intimacy to be found between the macro and the microcosmic. The surfaces of their works are adorned with layers of intricate, interlacing arrangements. Focusing on perceptual aspects, forms build and proliferate, developing spaces that sometimes recede and at others creep or explode beyond the bounds of the frame.

Cara Johnson was the recipient of the Craft Victoria's Fresh! Sofitel Emerging Craft Practitioner's Award (2017). She is a Victorian based craftsperson working primarily in jewellery and related sculptural forms.

The new works in this exhibition Swathe reflect and lament on relationships to individual trees, ideas which have unfolded through Cara's consideration of how a human hand can either support or devastate the life of a tree. She is interested in how jewellery and artefacts can function within the landscape, collaborating with nature and in narrating connections between material, nature and herself.

'A sense of place and connection. The natural and built landscapes, the place where we live, work and play.'

Entries are now open for the National Wool Museum’s annual Scarf Festival! Taking inspiration from this year’s theme – Living On The Land – scarf makers are being encouraged to incorporate natural and/or built landscapes and the places where people live, work and play, into their designs.